AddressAbout the role
Location: East Hanover, NJ #LI-Hybrid
The Executive Director and Product Strategy Lead, SMA will lead the creation, implementation, orchestration, and measurement of an integrated Product Strategy in the US, under the leadership of the General Manager, SMA. This individual will contribute to the key decision making for growing the impact of the product while actively managing resource allocation across multiple teams, and multiple functions. This will be done in consultation with various teams and functions, including: Marketing, Sales, Patient Services, Market Access, and Medical about their respective strategies, plans and proposed resourcing. This leader will impact the Novartis legacy by accelerating impact of the product, while leading through a business-critical integration as a key member of the General Manager team in the General Management Organization, while demonstrating accountability for the product and responsibility for broader enterprise leadership in their decisions and engagement across the US Organization.
Key Responsibilities:
· Define critical and specific integrated priorities and key impact measures for the product in consultation with the cross-functional integrated Product Strategy team under the final leadership of the General Manager
· Integrate, lead, measure and take decisive action against the KPIs on the integrated Product Strategy to raise impact for and performance of the product
· Significant contribution to the product full P&L under the final leadership of the General Manager, while enabling partner functions to manage day-to-day resource management
· Integrate key insights and data in partnership with functional heads to have an adaptive strategy and tactical plan in service of higher impact for our medicines
· Significant contribution to the topline results as an outcome of strategic choices, while partnering closely with functional heads for decision-making and for the integrated cross-functional resource allocation to deliver highest impact
· Establish and coordinate management of KPI’s across all functions accountable for the integrated Product Strategy
· Appropriately partner with functional heads in trade-off decisions in addition to partnering with other General Managers and members of the Product Strategy group for enterprise decisions, including potential trade-offs between products/indications
· Ensure that customer engagement and relationship building are factored into the product’s strategic goals and performance metrics to optimize the approach and identify potential areas of risk.
· Talent development, retention, growth and culture custodianship
· Interact with the Global Product Team, Strategy & Growth team and others to ensure effective ways of working
This position will be located at the East Hanover, NJ site and will not have the ability to be located re-motely. This position will require up to 25% travel as defined by the business (domestic and/or international). Please note that this role would not provide relocation and only local candidates will be considered.
The Executive Director and Product Strategy Lead, SMA will lead the creation, implementation, orchestration, and measurement of an integrated Product Strategy in the US, under the leadership of the General Manager, SMA. This individual will contribute to the key decision making for growing the impact of the product while actively managing resource allocation across multiple teams, and multiple functions. This will be done in consultation with various teams and functions, including: Marketing, Sales, Patient Services, Market Access, and Medical about their respective strategies, plans and proposed resourcing. This leader will impact the Novartis legacy by accelerating impact of the product, while leading through a business-critical integration as a key member of the General Manager team in the General Management Organization, while demonstrating accountability for the product and responsibility for broader enterprise leadership in their decisions and engagement across the US Organization.
Key Responsibilities:
· Define critical and specific integrated priorities and key impact measures for the product in consultation with the cross-functional integrated Product Strategy team under the final leadership of the General Manager
· Integrate, lead, measure and take decisive action against the KPIs on the integrated Product Strategy to raise impact for and performance of the product
· Significant contribution to the product full P&L under the final leadership of the General Manager, while enabling partner functions to manage day-to-day resource management
· Integrate key insights and data in partnership with functional heads to have an adaptive strategy and tactical plan in service of higher impact for our medicines
· Significant contribution to the topline results as an outcome of strategic choices, while partnering closely with functional heads for decision-making and for the integrated cross-functional resource allocation to deliver highest impact
· Establish and coordinate management of KPI’s across all functions accountable for the integrated Product Strategy
· Appropriately partner with functional heads in trade-off decisions in addition to partnering with other General Managers and members of the Product Strategy group for enterprise decisions, including potential trade-offs between products/indications
· Ensure that customer engagement and relationship building are factored into the product’s strategic goals and performance metrics to optimize the approach and identify potential areas of risk.
· Talent development, retention, growth and culture custodianship
· Interact with the Global Product Team, Strategy & Growth team and others to ensure effective ways of working
This position will be located at the East Hanover, NJ site and will not have the ability to be located re-motely. This position will require up to 25% travel as defined by the business (domestic and/or international). Please note that this role would not provide relocation and only local candidates will be considered.
EEO Statement
We are Equal Opportunity Employers and take pride in maintaining a diverse environment. We do not discriminate in recruitment, hiring, training, promotion or other employment practices for reasons of race, color, religion, gender, national origin, age, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, marital or veteran status, disability, or any other legally protected status. We are committed to building diverse teams, representative of the patients and communities we serve, and we strive to create an inclusive workplace that cultivates bold innovation through collaboration and empowers our people to unleash their full potential.
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Role Requirements
What You’ll Bring to the Role:
Education: Bachelor’s Degree, preferred MBA/advanced degree
Essential Requirements:
• Minimum 10 years’ US commercial experience preferably with multiple functional experience (including new products/pipeline/lifecycle management) in a pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or consulting environment, inclusive of at least 2 different types of cross-functional roles/experience. Cross-functional roles/experience means working in different full-time roles for at least 1 year each and can include experiences in Sales, Marketing, Market Access, Patient Services, Commercial Acceleration, etc.
• 3+ years of direct responsibility for large budget management inclusive of owning key product trade-off decisions
• 3+ years leading and translating an integrated Product Strategy requiring global and local alignment
• US Market, launch and product lifecycle stages experience or General Manager experience in other countries
• Passion for transformational enterprise leadership and decisive strategy in service of delivering higher impact for patients, customers, healthcare systems with higher quality, speed, and agility.
Desirable Requirements:
• Therapeutic area experience in rare disease and/or gene therapy experience
• US experience strongly preferred
Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
You’ll Receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $257,600 and $386,400/year; however, while salary ranges are effective from 1/1/24 through 12/31/24, fluctuations in the job market may necessitate adjustments to pay ranges during this period. Further, final pay determinations will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to geographical location, experience level, knowledge, skills and abilities. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company re-serves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network
Education: Bachelor’s Degree, preferred MBA/advanced degree
Essential Requirements:
• Minimum 10 years’ US commercial experience preferably with multiple functional experience (including new products/pipeline/lifecycle management) in a pharmaceutical, biotech, healthcare, or consulting environment, inclusive of at least 2 different types of cross-functional roles/experience. Cross-functional roles/experience means working in different full-time roles for at least 1 year each and can include experiences in Sales, Marketing, Market Access, Patient Services, Commercial Acceleration, etc.
• 3+ years of direct responsibility for large budget management inclusive of owning key product trade-off decisions
• 3+ years leading and translating an integrated Product Strategy requiring global and local alignment
• US Market, launch and product lifecycle stages experience or General Manager experience in other countries
• Passion for transformational enterprise leadership and decisive strategy in service of delivering higher impact for patients, customers, healthcare systems with higher quality, speed, and agility.
Desirable Requirements:
• Therapeutic area experience in rare disease and/or gene therapy experience
• US experience strongly preferred
Why Novartis: Our purpose is to reimagine medicine to improve and extend people’s lives and our vision is to become the most valued and trusted medicines company in the world. How can we achieve this? With our people. It is our associates that drive us each day to reach our ambitions. Be a part of this mission and join us! Learn more here: https://www.novartis.com/about/strategy/people-and-culture
You’ll Receive: You can find everything you need to know about our benefits and rewards in the Novartis Life Handbook. https://www.novartis.com/careers/benefits-rewards
Commitment to Diversity & Inclusion: Novartis is committed to building an outstanding, inclusive work environment and diverse teams representative of the patients and communities we serve.
The pay range for this position at commencement of employment is expected to be between $257,600 and $386,400/year; however, while salary ranges are effective from 1/1/24 through 12/31/24, fluctuations in the job market may necessitate adjustments to pay ranges during this period. Further, final pay determinations will depend on various factors, including, but not limited to geographical location, experience level, knowledge, skills and abilities. The total compensation package for this position may also include other elements, including a sign-on bonus, restricted stock units, and discretionary awards in addition to a full range of medical, financial, and/or other benefits (including 401(k) eligibility and various paid time off benefits, such as vacation, sick time, and parental leave), dependent on the position offered. Details of participation in these benefit plans will be provided if an employee receives an offer of employment. If hired, employee will be in an “at-will position” and the Company re-serves the right to modify base salary (as well as any other discretionary payment or compensation program) at any time, including for reasons related to individual performance, Company or individual department/team performance, and market factors.
Join our Novartis Network: If this role is not suitable to your experience or career goals but you wish to stay connected to hear more about Novartis and our career opportunities, join the Novartis Network here: https://talentnetwork.novartis.com/network
